Day 8: $100 Financial savings Problem (I cancelled an auto-renewal to avoid wasting $113!)

It’s Day 8 of the $100 Financial savings Problem and I didn’t totally observe the instructions as we speak (I’ll share extra under why that’s the case!), however I did cancel an auto-renewal and that’s going to ensure we don’t by accident spend $100 on an auto-renewal.

We’re in Atlanta for the baseball match via tomorrow. We’re having a good time and the children are doing so effectively general (aside from struggling to sleep for the primary few nights, however in any other case doing effectively!).

Immediately, we saved by…

-Bringing our personal snacks and drinks to the ball park (we’ve gone to the grocery retailer a number of instances to re-stock whereas right here!) These Chocolate Peanut Butter Quest bars are my new fave! (Did you see this sizzling deal on Quest bars proper now??)

-Utilizing ice from the resort ice machine as a substitute of shopping for it (by the best way, our Stanley cooler has been coming in clutch! We’re loving it — and it doubles as a chair to take a seat on and a stool to face on, too! And it’s on sale for $66 once more!!)

-Having fun with plenty of free enjoyable — enjoying on the baseball park and on the resort. The youngsters additionally acquired to look at Bluey on the resort TV whereas consuming snacks after an extended day of enjoying and being outdoors they usually had been SO excited. I want you can have heard them laughing… they assume Bluey is hilarious!

And now, onto the $100 Financial savings Problem! If you happen to haven’t signed up for the $100 Financial savings Problem, be certain observe the instructions to enroll (there are prizes!!):

How To Take part within the $100 Financial savings Problem

1. Go join the $100 Financial savings Problem to get your free 14-day plan.
2. Each week day of the problem, I’ll be posting on Instagram, Fb, and right here on the weblog as I work via the problem myself.
3. I’ll invite you to do the each day challenges with me and to share your successes! Each day that you simply full the problem and submit it, you’ll be entered to win certainly one of 5 $100 Amazon present playing cards we’re making a gift of randomly on the finish.
4. You may take part day by day or simply a few of the days — no matter works for you! However day by day that you simply take part and fill out the straightforward kind, you’re entered to win!

Day 8 Problem:

Day 8 Problem: Worth Verify Insurance coverage, Telephone Plan, or Web Service: Name and see in case you have the perfect charge doable and if there are any adjustments you may make to decrease your month-to-month bills. Or verify on-line to check charges. You would possibly unlock financial savings that may repay month after month! (Save: $5–$10+/month)

We lately re-ran our medical insurance charges and selected a special plan. We’re privately insured and have a excessive deductible with 100% protection after we meet the deductible (we met ours already this 12 months on account of Kathrynne’s hospital keep in the beginning of the 12 months + a number of different medical issues). We get our charges via Zander and actually admire how they assist us to get the perfect bang for our buck with regards to medical insurance. We at all times verify plans annually and look to see if there are any higher choices or charges.

So we didn’t want to cost verify our insurance coverage. And since our cellphone plan and web service are one of the crucial essential elements of our enterprise and we’re actually proud of what we’ve proper now, I don’t need to change to one thing else and probably mess up protection (plus, my cellphone and our web are a enterprise expense), so we determined towards making an attempt to change to one thing else.

One Fast Means We Assured We’ll Not Pay $113

I discovered how one can go in and flip off auto-renew for Craftsy — that manner I don’t have to recollect to cancel when it’s near my 12 months being up!

You simply go into your account, click on on membership, after which there’s a button to click on to cancel auto-renew. It actually took me 30 seconds!

By the best way, you possibly can join a totally FREE Craftsy account proper now (we’ve by no means seen it free — this provides you entry to over 1500 crafting lessons!) after which go in and click on to not auto-renew and you’ll get a 12 months totally free with out having to fret about remembering to cancel!

I’m not going to rely the Craftsy cancellation within the cash saved, since I seemingly would have remembered to cancel that, so I’m going to say that we’re nonetheless at $45.25 discovered/saved up to now with the problem. How a lot have you ever saved/discovered as far as a part of the problem?

Enter to Win a $100 Amazon Reward Card (we’re giving 5 away!)

Go join the problem right here! And only for enjoyable — and to encourage you to hitch us for the problem — if you happen to do as we speak’s problem and fill out the shape linked right here, you can be entered to win certainly one of 5 $100 Amazon present playing cards I’m making a gift of on the finish of the problem!

Notice: We might presumably share a number of of the perfect entries over the course of the problem, so by submitting the shape, you’re giving us permission to presumably publish your entry. If you happen to’d quite we don’t publish it, please observe that in your entry.

Did you take part as we speak? I’d love to listen to how as we speak went for you!